Second, despite the moral and ethical issues of "hooking up" or "onenight stands", here we go into the probable future. The previousintense look at AIs (artificial intelligences) was not kind to the humanrace. For example, the Terminator movies, each one bringing a newlevel of death and destruction to the human race as Skynet achieved selfawareness.

But, the QC web comic treats AIs as common, self aware, and self mobilein their android bodies. And willing to try new experiences withhumans. This reminds me a lot of Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel serieswhere the humans living off the Earth (Spacers) fall in love with selfaware robots.https://www.amazon.com/Caves-Steel-Daneel-Olivaw-Book/dp/0553293400/

So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation on humans ?

Post by Lynn McGuireQuestionable Content: respecting privacy for AIs ? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4016First, this subject is NSFW (not safe for work !).Second, despite the moral and ethical issues of "hooking up" or "onenight stands", here we go into the probable future. The previousintense look at AIs (artificial intelligences) was not kind to the humanrace. For example, the Terminator movies, each one bringing a newlevel of death and destruction to the human race as Skynet achieved selfawareness.But, the QC web comic treats AIs as common, self aware, and self mobilein their android bodies. And willing to try new experiences withhumans. This reminds me a lot of Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel serieswhere the humans living off the Earth (Spacers) fall in love with selfaware robots. https://www.amazon.com/Caves-Steel-Daneel-Olivaw-Book/dp/0553293400/So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation on humans ?Lynn

And of course Heinlein visited the subject of AIs becoming aware inTMIAHM (_The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_) and being moved into androidbodies in _Time Enough For Love_ and _The Cat Who Walks Through Walls_.https://www.amazon.com/Time-Enough-Love-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0441810764/andhttps://www.amazon.com/Cat-Who-Walks-through-Walls/dp/0441094996/

Post by Lynn McGuireQuestionable Content: respecting privacy for AIs ?https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4016First, this subject is NSFW (not safe for work !).Second, despite the moral and ethical issues of "hooking up" or "onenight stands", here we go into the probable future. The previousintense look at AIs (artificial intelligences) was not kind to the humanrace. For example, the Terminator movies, each one bringing a newlevel of death and destruction to the human race as Skynet achieved selfawareness.But, the QC web comic treats AIs as common, self aware, and self mobilein their android bodies. And willing to try new experiences withhumans. This reminds me a lot of Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel serieswhere the humans living off the Earth (Spacers) fall in love with selfaware robots.https://www.amazon.com/Caves-Steel-Daneel-Olivaw-Book/dp/0553293400/So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation on humans ?

Who the hell knows?

There's a self-consistant arguement that once we can create an AI evenslightly more intelligent than ourselves, we've started an avalanche ofimprovement which would end in a Technological Singularity, wherein themost important entities are machines of incomprehensible-to-human intellect,power, and motivation who may have no interest in serving, or preserving,humanity.

The AIs in QC don't seem to be smarter than humans, and at least somestart out as owned things, with limited agency, though they can acquireagency as time goes by.

Post by Lynn McGuireQuestionable Content: respecting privacy for AIs ?https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4016First, this subject is NSFW (not safe for work !).Second, despite the moral and ethical issues of "hooking up" or "onenight stands", here we go into the probable future. The previousintense look at AIs (artificial intelligences) was not kind to the humanrace. For example, the Terminator movies, each one bringing a newlevel of death and destruction to the human race as Skynet achieved selfawareness.But, the QC web comic treats AIs as common, self aware, and self mobilein their android bodies. And willing to try new experiences withhumans. This reminds me a lot of Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel serieswhere the humans living off the Earth (Spacers) fall in love with selfaware robots.https://www.amazon.com/Caves-Steel-Daneel-Olivaw-Book/dp/0553293400/So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation on humans ?

Who the hell knows?There's a self-consistant arguement that once we can create an AI evenslightly more intelligent than ourselves, we've started an avalanche ofimprovement which would end in a Technological Singularity, wherein themost important entities are machines of incomprehensible-to-human intellect,power, and motivation who may have no interest in serving, or preserving,humanity.The AIs in QC don't seem to be smarter than humans, and at least somestart out as owned things, with limited agency, though they can acquireagency as time goes by.

The most interesting thing about the QC AIs is, generally, hownice they are. May has a chip (not necessarily silicon) on hershoulder, but her history explains it, though it doesn't excuseit. Bubbles has been through worse and come out of it kind,considerate, and (dare I say it) human.

The one I'd like to see more of is Spookybot, who combinesunimaginable powers with a code of ethics that humans can onlyenvy.

Post by Lynn McGuireQuestionable Content: respecting privacy for AIs ?https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4016First, this subject is NSFW (not safe for work !).Second, despite the moral and ethical issues of "hooking up" or "onenight stands", here we go into the probable future. The previousintense look at AIs (artificial intelligences) was not kind to the humanrace. For example, the Terminator movies, each one bringing a newlevel of death and destruction to the human race as Skynet achieved selfawareness.But, the QC web comic treats AIs as common, self aware, and self mobilein their android bodies. And willing to try new experiences withhumans. This reminds me a lot of Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel serieswhere the humans living off the Earth (Spacers) fall in love with selfaware robots.https://www.amazon.com/Caves-Steel-Daneel-Olivaw-Book/dp/0553293400/So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation on humans ?

Who the hell knows?There's a self-consistant arguement that once we can create an AI evenslightly more intelligent than ourselves, we've started an avalanche ofimprovement which would end in a Technological Singularity, wherein themost important entities are machines of incomprehensible-to-human intellect,power, and motivation who may have no interest in serving, or preserving,humanity.The AIs in QC don't seem to be smarter than humans, and at least somestart out as owned things, with limited agency, though they can acquireagency as time goes by.

The most interesting thing about the QC AIs is, generally, hownice they are. May has a chip (not necessarily silicon) on hershoulder, but her history explains it, though it doesn't excuseit. Bubbles has been through worse and come out of it kind,considerate, and (dare I say it) human.The one I'd like to see more of is Spookybot, who combinesunimaginable powers with a code of ethics that humans can onlyenvy.

The only AI in QC I can think of who's been downright evil, is CorpseWitch:

Post by Lynn McGuireQuestionable Content: respecting privacy for AIs ?https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4016First, this subject is NSFW (not safe for work !).Second, despite the moral and ethical issues of "hooking up" or "onenight stands", here we go into the probable future. The previousintense look at AIs (artificial intelligences) was not kind to the humanrace. For example, the Terminator movies, each one bringing a newlevel of death and destruction to the human race as Skynet achieved selfawareness.But, the QC web comic treats AIs as common, self aware, and self mobilein their android bodies. And willing to try new experiences withhumans. This reminds me a lot of Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel serieswhere the humans living off the Earth (Spacers) fall in love with selfaware robots.https://www.amazon.com/Caves-Steel-Daneel-Olivaw-Book/dp/0553293400/So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation on humans ?

Who the hell knows?There's a self-consistant arguement that once we can create an AI evenslightly more intelligent than ourselves, we've started an avalanche ofimprovement which would end in a Technological Singularity, wherein themost important entities are machines of incomprehensible-to-human intellect,power, and motivation who may have no interest in serving, or preserving,humanity.The AIs in QC don't seem to be smarter than humans, and at least somestart out as owned things, with limited agency, though they can acquireagency as time goes by.

The most interesting thing about the QC AIs is, generally, hownice they are. May has a chip (not necessarily silicon) on hershoulder, but her history explains it, though it doesn't excuseit. Bubbles has been through worse and come out of it kind,considerate, and (dare I say it) human.The one I'd like to see more of is Spookybot, who combinesunimaginable powers with a code of ethics that humans can onlyenvy.

The only AI in QC I can think of who's been downright evil, is Corpsehttps://questionablecontent.fandom.com/wiki/Corpse_Witch

I realize it was a throwaway character, but I keep hoping Vespabot will returnand we find out its backstory.

Post by Lynn McGuireQuestionable Content: respecting privacy for AIs ?https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4016First, this subject is NSFW (not safe for work !).Second, despite the moral and ethical issues of "hooking up" or "onenight stands", here we go into the probable future. The previousintense look at AIs (artificial intelligences) was not kind to the humanrace. For example, the Terminator movies, each one bringing a newlevel of death and destruction to the human race as Skynet achieved selfawareness.But, the QC web comic treats AIs as common, self aware, and self mobilein their android bodies. And willing to try new experiences withhumans. This reminds me a lot of Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel serieswhere the humans living off the Earth (Spacers) fall in love with selfaware robots.https://www.amazon.com/Caves-Steel-Daneel-Olivaw-Book/dp/0553293400/So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation

Post by Peter TreiWho the hell knows?There's a self-consistant arguement that once we can create an AI evenslightly more intelligent than ourselves, we've started an avalanche ofimprovement which would end in a Technological Singularity, wherein themost important entities are machines of incomprehensible-to-human intellect,power, and motivation who may have no interest in serving, or preserving,humanity.The AIs in QC don't seem to be smarter than humans, and at least somestart out as owned things, with limited agency, though they can acquireagency as time goes by.

The most interesting thing about the QC AIs is, generally, hownice they are. May has a chip (not necessarily silicon) on hershoulder, but her history explains it, though it doesn't excuseit. Bubbles has been through worse and come out of it kind,considerate, and (dare I say it) human.The one I'd like to see more of is Spookybot, who combinesunimaginable powers with a code of ethics that humans can onlyenvy.

The only AI in QC I can think of who's been downright evil, is Corpsehttps://questionablecontent.fandom.com/wiki/Corpse_Witch

I realize it was a throwaway character, but I keep hoping Vespabot will returnand we find out its backstory.

I don't even remember Vespabot, who must have been a *very*throwaway character. Remind me, please?

Post by Lynn McGuireQuestionable Content: respecting privacy for AIs ?https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4016First, this subject is NSFW (not safe for work !).Second, despite the moral and ethical issues of "hooking up" or "onenight stands", here we go into the probable future. The previousintense look at AIs (artificial intelligences) was not kind to the humanrace. For example, the Terminator movies, each one bringing a newlevel of death and destruction to the human race as Skynet achieved selfawareness.But, the QC web comic treats AIs as common, self aware, and self mobilein their android bodies. And willing to try new experiences withhumans. This reminds me a lot of Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel serieswhere the humans living off the Earth (Spacers) fall in love with selfaware robots.https://www.amazon.com/Caves-Steel-Daneel-Olivaw-Book/dp/0553293400/So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation

Post by Peter TreiWho the hell knows?There's a self-consistant arguement that once we can create an AI evenslightly more intelligent than ourselves, we've started an avalanche ofimprovement which would end in a Technological Singularity, wherein themost important entities are machines of incomprehensible-to-human intellect,power, and motivation who may have no interest in serving, or preserving,humanity.The AIs in QC don't seem to be smarter than humans, and at least somestart out as owned things, with limited agency, though they can acquireagency as time goes by.

The most interesting thing about the QC AIs is, generally, hownice they are. May has a chip (not necessarily silicon) on hershoulder, but her history explains it, though it doesn't excuseit. Bubbles has been through worse and come out of it kind,considerate, and (dare I say it) human.The one I'd like to see more of is Spookybot, who combinesunimaginable powers with a code of ethics that humans can onlyenvy.

The only AI in QC I can think of who's been downright evil, is Corpsehttps://questionablecontent.fandom.com/wiki/Corpse_Witch

I realize it was a throwaway character, but I keep hoping Vespabot will returnand we find out its backstory.

I don't even remember Vespabot, who must have been a *very*throwaway character. Remind me, please?

Post by Lynn McGuireQuestionable Content: respecting privacy for AIs ?https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4016First, this subject is NSFW (not safe for work !).Second, despite the moral and ethical issues of "hooking up" or "onenight stands", here we go into the probable future. The previousintense look at AIs (artificial intelligences) was not kind to the humanrace. For example, the Terminator movies, each one bringing a newlevel of death and destruction to the human race as Skynet achieved selfawareness.But, the QC web comic treats AIs as common, self aware, and self mobilein their android bodies. And willing to try new experiences withhumans. This reminds me a lot of Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel serieswhere the humans living off the Earth (Spacers) fall in love with selfaware robots.https://www.amazon.com/Caves-Steel-Daneel-Olivaw-Book/dp/0553293400/So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation

Post by Peter TreiWho the hell knows?There's a self-consistant arguement that once we can create an AI evenslightly more intelligent than ourselves, we've started an avalanche ofimprovement which would end in a Technological Singularity, wherein themost important entities are machines of incomprehensible-to-human intellect,power, and motivation who may have no interest in serving, or preserving,humanity.The AIs in QC don't seem to be smarter than humans, and at least somestart out as owned things, with limited agency, though they can acquireagency as time goes by.

The most interesting thing about the QC AIs is, generally, hownice they are. May has a chip (not necessarily silicon) on hershoulder, but her history explains it, though it doesn't excuseit. Bubbles has been through worse and come out of it kind,considerate, and (dare I say it) human.The one I'd like to see more of is Spookybot, who combinesunimaginable powers with a code of ethics that humans can onlyenvy.

The only AI in QC I can think of who's been downright evil, is Corpsehttps://questionablecontent.fandom.com/wiki/Corpse_Witch

I realize it was a throwaway character, but I keep hoping Vespabot will returnand we find out its backstory.

I don't even remember Vespabot, who must have been a *very*throwaway character. Remind me, please?

Remember when Faye and ... wow, my mind has completely blanked out ...Sven's sister, Marten's ex, fought the Vespa-riding avenger of imaginarycrimes against women, whose scooter turned out to be a combat robot? (Howthe heck can I not remember her name? I remember a bunch of her hairstyles,the name of her business [Coffee of Doom], her parents, her weird forcedcuddling of Faye, but her name refuses to appear.)

Was the character actually called the Vespa Agenger?

I have wondered if her companion was one of Bubbles' comrades, who reactedeven worse than Bubbles to her military experiences, by becoming a weirdvigilante sidekick.

Post by Lynn McGuire[...]So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation on humans ?

Generally speaking, in the stuff I've read or seen, or have heard about,AIs tend to become aware and immediately qualify as "adults" and witheither intelligence levels comparable to their creators (humans orotherwise) or quite above their level. Even the few stories where an AIstarts out as a "child", "grows up" speedily and ends up no differentfrom the rest of the stuff I mentioned.

But I wonder... what if self-arisen AIs should be, for lack of adiplomatic term, a bunch of retards? Single-minded child-like beingswith a low "IQ", that also lack the drive of an actual child to learnand "grow up"?

AIs being software, what if the only way to improve them is through thecreation of forks (clones) where a superior intelligence (be it human orotherwise) adds what they're lacking? And they can't know how withoutpicking the AI's brain to understand how it works first?

Software spelunking has just gotten way nastier. Excuse me while I gowrite some kind of outline...

Post by Lynn McGuire[...]So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation on humans ?

Generally speaking, in the stuff I've read or seen, or have heard about,AIs tend to become aware and immediately qualify as "adults" and witheither intelligence levels comparable to their creators (humans orotherwise) or quite above their level. Even the few stories where an AIstarts out as a "child", "grows up" speedily and ends up no differentfrom the rest of the stuff I mentioned.But I wonder... what if self-arisen AIs should be, for lack of adiplomatic term, a bunch of retards? Single-minded child-like beingswith a low "IQ", that also lack the drive of an actual child to learnand "grow up"?

Welllll.... In a sense we have AIs in that state right now. Ithas long been pointed out that the computer is the stupidestdomestic animal we have got. And in the online game I play,* wefrequently say of an NPC who does something dumb that "his AIisn't very I."

Post by Miguel Farah F.AIs being software, what if the only way to improve them is through thecreation of forks (clones) where a superior intelligence (be it human orotherwise) adds what they're lacking? And they can't know how withoutpicking the AI's brain to understand how it works first?Software spelunking has just gotten way nastier. Excuse me while I gowrite some kind of outline...

Go for it.

_____*Not WoW. Lord of the Rings Online, which just went to 64-bitsoftware today. Now the trees cast detailed leafy shadows,rather than shadowy blobs.

*Not WoW. Â Lord of the Rings Online, which just went to 64-bitÂ software today. Â Now the trees cast detailed leafy shadows,Â rather than shadowy blobs.

Is that what has been driving its software advance? To realistically depict a single leaf?

No, I think that's whatever the antonym is for "collateraldamage." Players have been whingeing for 64-bit on the forum forseveral years now, and though I am not a programmer, I'm marriedto one, and he says the advantage of 64-bit is that it canaddress more memory.

*Not WoW. Â Lord of the Rings Online, which just went to 64-bitÂsoftware today. Â Now the trees cast detailed leafy shadows,Ârather than shadowy blobs.

Is that what has been driving its software advance? To realisticallydepict a single leaf?

No, I think that's whatever the antonym is for "collateraldamage." Players have been whingeing for 64-bit on the forum forseveral years now, and though I am not a programmer, I'm marriedto one, and he says the advantage of 64-bit is that it canaddress more memory.

And 64 bit integers and double precision floating points can beinterchanged easily since they both use 64 bits of memory.

*Not WoW. ÃÂ Lord of the Rings Online, which just went to 64-bitÃsoftware today. ÃÂ Now the trees cast detailed leafy shadows,Ãrather than shadowy blobs.

Is that what has been driving its software advance? To realisticallydepict a single leaf?

No, I think that's whatever the antonym is for "collateraldamage." Players have been whingeing for 64-bit on the forum forseveral years now, and though I am not a programmer, I'm marriedto one, and he says the advantage of 64-bit is that it canaddress more memory.

And 64 bit integers and double precision floating points can beinterchanged easily since they both use 64 bits of memory.

*Not WoW. Â Lord of the Rings Online, which just went to 64-bitÂ software today. Â Now the trees cast detailed leafy shadows,Â rather than shadowy blobs.

Is that what has been driving its software advance? To realistically depict a single leaf?

Hey-ho, Tom thinks that is an excellent idea.

Post by Dorothy J HeydtNo, I think that's whatever the antonym is for "collateraldamage." Players have been whingeing for 64-bit on the forum forseveral years now, and though I am not a programmer, I'm marriedto one, and he says the advantage of 64-bit is that it canaddress more memory.

*Not WoW. Lord of the Rings Online, which just went to 64-bit software today. Now the trees cast detailed leafy shadows, rather than shadowy blobs.

Is that what has been driving its software advance? To realistically depict a single leaf?

And of course a single flower, and a single fruit.

Dave, weep for what was lost

--\/David DeLaney posting thru EarthLink - "It's not the pot that grows the flowerIt's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to seeLove is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>my gatekeeper archives are no longer accessible :( / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.

*Not WoW. Lord of the Rings Online, which just went to 64-bit software today. Now the trees cast detailed leafy shadows, rather than shadowy blobs.

Is that what has been driving its software advance? To realistically depicta single leaf?

And of course a single flower, and a single fruit.Dave, weep for what was lost

But ... we see them daily and nightly in the sky.

Yes, but the resolution on them is _crap_. They're a single huge blurry pixeleach!

Dave, the state of the Art was not as developed then

ps: "Earendil was a mariner / who tarried in Arvernien..."

--\/David DeLaney posting thru EarthLink - "It's not the pot that grows the flowerIt's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to seeLove is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>my gatekeeper archives are no longer accessible :( / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.

Isn't that why we are aiming for google-bit processing? (The number,not the search engine. Although, maybe if we cross-connect them....)

The number's a googol.

Dave, eleventeen vigintillion and six

--\/David DeLaney posting thru EarthLink - "It's not the pot that grows the flowerIt's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to seeLove is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>my gatekeeper archives are no longer accessible :( / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.

Software spelunking has just gotten way nastier. Excuse me while I gowrite some kind of outline...

Go for it.

So I start thinking about how AIs can be retards and how to deal with itand two days later, I am researching if clostridium bacteria could thrivein an atmosphere that has been replaced by noble gasses, forcing thepeople tasked with recovering the bodies of the dead to wear environmentsuits (even though it's their own planet) to avoid a botulism outbreak;war is, indeed, nasty.

--MIGUEL FARAH // ***@farah.cl#include <disclaimer.h> // http://www.farah.cl/<*>"If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong."- Norm Schryer

Software spelunking has just gotten way nastier. Excuse me while I gowrite some kind of outline...

Go for it.

So I start thinking about how AIs can be retards and how to deal with itand two days later, I am researching if clostridium bacteria could thrivein an atmosphere that has been replaced by noble gasses, forcing thepeople tasked with recovering the bodies of the dead to wear environmentsuits (even though it's their own planet) to avoid a botulism outbreak;war is, indeed, nasty.

Well ... try it on for size, remembering however that biowarfarehas the same drawback as poison gas: it may turn around on you.

Software spelunking has just gotten way nastier. Excuse me while I gowrite some kind of outline...

Go for it.

So I start thinking about how AIs can be retards and how to deal with itand two days later, I am researching if clostridium bacteria could thrivein an atmosphere that has been replaced by noble gasses, forcing thepeople tasked with recovering the bodies of the dead to wear environmentsuits (even though it's their own planet) to avoid a botulism outbreak;war is, indeed, nasty.

Well ... try it on for size, remembering however that biowarfarehas the same drawback as poison gas: it may turn around on you.

I watched the Einstein series on National Geographic channel a couple ofyears ago. Highly recommended. One of Einstein's friends invented theMustard Gas process and used it in the trenches in WWI. The first timethey used it, the wind changed and some of the mustard gas came backtheir way.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_(American_TV_series)

Post by Lynn McGuire[...]So what is it going to be if AIs become self aware ? Are they going tocome after us or are they going to become just another variation on humans ?

Generally speaking, in the stuff I've read or seen, or have heard about,AIs tend to become aware and immediately qualify as "adults" and witheither intelligence levels comparable to their creators (humans orotherwise) or quite above their level. Even the few stories where an AIstarts out as a "child", "grows up" speedily and ends up no differentfrom the rest of the stuff I mentioned.But I wonder... what if self-arisen AIs should be, for lack of adiplomatic term, a bunch of retards? Single-minded child-like beingswith a low "IQ", that also lack the drive of an actual child to learnand "grow up"?AIs being software, what if the only way to improve them is through thecreation of forks (clones) where a superior intelligence (be it human orotherwise) adds what they're lacking? And they can't know how withoutpicking the AI's brain to understand how it works first?Software spelunking has just gotten way nastier. Excuse me while I gowrite some kind of outline...

Jerry Pournelle used to say that he realized how smart the low IQ peoplewere when his Boeing team was programming their spacesuit testing lab inthe 1970s/1980s.

But I wonder... what if self-arisen AIs should be. . . .[s]ingle-minded child-like beings with a low "IQ", that also lackthe drive of an actual child to learn and "grow up"?AIs being software, what if the only way to improve them is throughthe creation of forks (clones) where a superior intelligence (be ithuman or otherwise) adds what they're lacking? And they can't knowhow without picking the AI's brain to understand how it works first?

An alternative path to creating a human-level artificial intelligence:

https://www.gocomics.com/saturday-morning-breakfast-cereal/2019/06/05

--Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjacksonI can't help that I was born privileged and oblivious.- J. Barnard Pillsbury (Gene and Dan Weingarten)

But I wonder... what if self-arisen AIs should be. . . .[s]ingle-minded child-like beings with a low "IQ", that also lackthe drive of an actual child to learn and "grow up"?AIs being software, what if the only way to improve them is throughthe creation of forks (clones) where a superior intelligence (be ithuman or otherwise) adds what they're lacking? And they can't knowhow without picking the AI's brain to understand how it works first?

https://www.gocomics.com/saturday-morning-breakfast-cereal/2019/06/05

Sometimes I DON'T want to punch Zach Weiner in the face. Not that I'mgoing to stop reading his comic daily in the foreseeable future. :-D

--MIGUEL FARAH // ***@farah.cl#include <disclaimer.h> // http://www.farah.cl/<*>"A computer without COBOL and FORTRAN is like a piece of chocolate cakewithout ketchup or mustard."- John Krueger

Post by Miguel Farah F."A computer without COBOL and FORTRAN is like a piece of chocolate cakewithout ketchup or mustard."- John Krueger

Oh, splendid. Saved to disk (a very long file by now, entitlted"quotes", which I will read off to Hal as soon as he get backfrom the tire place (where it will be determined whether myson-in-law's Suburban *does* or *does not* have a nail in one ofits tires).

Postscriptum: he's back, and it *does not.* One less thing wrongwith that car. (Still has a cracked windshield and the ACdoesn't work, but at least it runs now.)

Post by Miguel Farah F."A computer without COBOL and FORTRAN is like a piece of chocolatecake without ketchup or mustard." - John Krueger

Oh, splendid. Saved to disk (a very long file by now, entitlted"quotes"

My first programming language was Fortran, and I later worked withRatfor and its more efficient implementation M4; it had its uses butsince I'm long out of that environment I don't miss it. This is from

--Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjacksonConsistently separating words by spaces became a general custom aboutthe tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRANabandoned the practice. - Sun FORTRAN Reference Manual

Post by Miguel Farah F."A computer without COBOL and FORTRAN is like a piece of chocolatecake without ketchup or mustard." - John Krueger

Oh, splendid. Saved to disk (a very long file by now, entitlted"quotes"

My first programming language was Fortran, and I later worked withRatfor and its more efficient implementation M4; it had its uses butsince I'm long out of that environment I don't miss it. This is from

I started using variable sigquotes as soon as tin started supportingthem (back in 1993) and have been collecting worthy quotes in the ~/.Sigsdirectory since then. Only a couple of the oldest quotes make me cringesomewhat now (and no, I ain't takin' 'em down).

Post by Miguel Farah F.I started using variable sigquotes as soon as tin started supportingthem (back in 1993) and have been collecting worthy quotes in the ~/.Sigsdirectory since then. Only a couple of the oldest quotes make me cringesomewhat now (and no, I ain't takin' 'em down).

Hal has a little 3.5-inch video screen connected to a RaspberryPi that fits into his shirt pocket, that cycles at five?-secondintervals through a large number of snarky comments, many ofwhich came off refrigerator magnets. His latest addition, if I'mcurrent on it, is "AOC 2028," although he's toyed with the ideaof changing it to "AOC 2024" because, although Rep. Ocasio-Cortezwould not be 35 yet during the 2024 campaign, she would be by thetime of inauguration in 2025.

Right now, I'd settle for the other one he has: "WARREN HARRISDUCKWORTH: PICK ANY TWO."

Post by Miguel Farah F.I started using variable sigquotes as soon as tin started supportingthem (back in 1993) and have been collecting worthy quotes in the ~/.Sigsdirectory since then. Only a couple of the oldest quotes make me cringesomewhat now (and no, I ain't takin' 'em down).

Hal has a little 3.5-inch video screen connected to a RaspberryPi that fits into his shirt pocket, that cycles at five?-secondintervals through a large number of snarky comments, many ofwhich came off refrigerator magnets. His latest addition, if I'mcurrent on it, is "AOC 2028," although he's toyed with the ideaof changing it to "AOC 2024"....

I prefer "AIOC 1781." :)

Post by Dorothy J Heydtbecause, although Rep. Ocasio-Cortezwould not be 35 yet during the 2024 campaign, she would be by thetime of inauguration in 2025.

--\/David DeLaney posting thru EarthLink - "It's not the pot that grows the flowerIt's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to seeLove is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>my gatekeeper archives are no longer accessible :( / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.

For Cat's sake, Kev, if you're going rot-13 a URL, give us somekind of hint. I got the weirdest error messages.....That said, bookmarked. I have a pocket Constitution in mybookcase, but it doesn't include that flavor of AOC.

Post by Miguel Farah F."A computer without COBOL and FORTRAN is like a piece of chocolatecake without ketchup or mustard." - John Krueger

Oh, splendid. Saved to disk (a very long file by now, entitlted"quotes"

My first programming language was Fortran, and I later worked withRatfor and its more efficient implementation M4; it had its uses butsince I'm long out of that environment I don't miss it. This is from

I read that off to Hal and he said, "Heh. That's why theRaspberry Pi is called 'Pi'; they were thinking of making it aPython machine." I said, "Thank goodness they changed theirmind."

When we were first dating, he decided he'd teach me FORTRAN. Ipatiently explained to him that FORTRAN didn't do anything Iwanted to do. (Numbers have never been my thing, and since theCFS set in and hosed my short-term memory, I can't remember aseven-digit telephone number long enough to dial it. I hadscratch paper always at my left hand.) I got into computerswhen I discovered UNIX and its text-processing software.

Post by Miguel Farah F."A computer without COBOL and FORTRAN is like a piece of chocolate cakewithout ketchup or mustard."- John Krueger

Oh, splendid. Saved to disk (a very long file by now, entitlted"quotes", which I will read off to Hal as soon as he get backfrom the tire place (where it will be determined whether myson-in-law's Suburban *does* or *does not* have a nail in one ofits tires).

A tricky paragraph - but I'm to blame for confusing myselfinto thinking that Hal seems to make a slow trip to thefire place and back. And these should be good glasses.

Post by Miguel Farah F."A computer without COBOL and FORTRAN is like a piece of chocolate cakewithout ketchup or mustard."- John Krueger

Oh, splendid. Saved to disk (a very long file by now, entitlted"quotes", which I will read off to Hal as soon as he get backfrom the tire place (where it will be determined whether myson-in-law's Suburban *does* or *does not* have a nail in one ofits tires).

A tricky paragraph - but I'm to blame for confusing myselfinto thinking that Hal seems to make a slow trip to thefire place and back. And these should be good glasses.

*Tire* place, and I don't think it's very far away, but he had towait for somebody to be free to inspect the thing and determinethat it hadn't lost any pressure since it was in yesterday.